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commit 88d9f320ca53d033aadb3c8de37636a402a5ae5d
Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Mar 15 22:25:12 2015 -0600

    perlunicode: Nit, for EBCDIC

M       pod/perlunicode.pod

commit bd940430ebc41b7b346cc761cc46be9674f34111
Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]>
Date:   Sun Mar 15 21:49:55 2015 -0600

    perlpodspec: Generalize for EBCDIC

M       pod/perlpodspec.pod
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Summary of changes:
 pod/perlpodspec.pod | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
 pod/perlunicode.pod |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pod/perlpodspec.pod b/pod/perlpodspec.pod
index 251a55c..c3d172f 100644
--- a/pod/perlpodspec.pod
+++ b/pod/perlpodspec.pod
@@ -842,17 +842,19 @@ Pod::Parser, comes with modern versions of Perl.
 
 Characters in Pod documents may be conveyed either as literals, or by
 number in EE<lt>n> codes, or by an equivalent mnemonic, as in
-EE<lt>eacute> which is exactly equivalent to EE<lt>233>.
-
-Characters in the range 32-126 refer to those well known US-ASCII
-characters (also defined there by Unicode, with the same meaning),
-which all Pod formatters must render faithfully.  Characters
-in the ranges 0-31 and 127-159 should not be used (neither as
-literals, nor as EE<lt>number> codes), except for the
-literal byte-sequences for newline (13, 13 10, or 10), and tab (9).
-
-Characters in the range 160-255 refer to Latin-1 characters (also
-defined there by Unicode, with the same meaning).  Characters above
+EE<lt>eacute> which is exactly equivalent to EE<lt>233>.  The numbers
+are the Latin1/Unicode values, even on EBCDIC platforms.
+
+When referring to characters by using a EE<lt>n> numeric code, numbers
+in the range 32-126 refer to those well known US-ASCII characters (also
+defined there by Unicode, with the same meaning), which all Pod
+formatters must render faithfully.  Numbers in the ranges 0-31 and
+127-159 should not be used (neither as literals, nor as EE<lt>number>
+codes), except for the literal byte-sequences for newline (13, 13 10, or
+10), and tab (9).
+
+Numbers in the range 160-255 refer to Latin-1 characters (also
+defined there by Unicode, with the same meaning).  Numbers above
 255 should be understood to refer to Unicode characters.
 
 =item *
diff --git a/pod/perlunicode.pod b/pod/perlunicode.pod
index e1e4cdb..869d9a5 100644
--- a/pod/perlunicode.pod
+++ b/pod/perlunicode.pod
@@ -1710,7 +1710,7 @@ a valid UTF-8 character.
 
 C<UTF8SKIP(buf)> will return the number of bytes in the UTF-8 encoded
 character in the buffer.  C<UNISKIP(chr)> will return the number of bytes
-required to UTF-8-encode the Unicode character code point.  C<UTF8SKIP()>
+required to UTF-8-encode the code point.  C<UTF8SKIP()>
 is useful for example for iterating over the characters of a UTF-8
 encoded buffer; C<UNISKIP()> is useful, for example, in computing
 the size required for a UTF-8 encoded buffer.

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